Xi unveils ‘Asia-Pacific dream’

President Xi Jinping, who has often encouraged his countrymen to realize “the Chinese dream,” is now promoting an “Asia-Pacific dream” led by China, AFP reported.

“We have the responsibility to create and realise an Asia-Pacific dream for the people of the region,” Xi told a gathering of business and political leaders on Sunday before the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit this week.

Xi said his “Asia-Pacific dream” was based on a “shared destiny” of peace, development and mutual benefit in the region.

“For the Asia-Pacific and the world at large, China’s development will generate huge opportunities and benefits and hold lasting and infinite promise,” he said.

Xi later welcomed to Beijing Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is attending the summit.

It was “time to gather fruit” from “the tree of Russian-Chinese relations,” Xi told Putin, as the two sides signed agreements stepping up their multi-billion-dollar cooperation in energy and resources.

US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be among the leaders attending the APEC summit.

The 21-member body groups 40 percent of the world’s population and accounts for almost half its trade and more than half its gross domestic product.

An online feud between US President Donald Trump and NBA superstars Stephen Curry and LeBron James may have grabbed some headlines around the world, but what the international community is truly concerned about right...

China’s cyber watchdog has handed down maximum penalties to several of the country’s top tech firms, including Tencent Holdings Ltd., Baidu Inc and Weibo Corp., for failing to properly censor online content, Reuters reports....

North Korea’s foreign minister on Monday accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war against his country, and said that Pyongyang reserves the right to take countermeasures, including shooting down US bombers. Ri Yong-ho...

China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled the nation’s former top insurance regulator and the head of the finance ministry’s anti-graft committee after an anti-corruption watchdog said investigations found serious violations of party discipline, Reuters...

US President Donald Trump stepped up rhetoric against North Korea at the weekend, warning the Kim Jong-un regime that it “won’t be around much longer” if it continues to threaten the United States. “Just...

In July this year, an Indonesian think-tank published a report which warned of a potential terror threat posed by Indonesian domestic helpers currently working across Asia, as the Islamic State (IS) has been working...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. While the academic circles in the mainland have remained rather indifferent to this special occasion, Chinese...